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[edit] CONTINENTAL AND NATIONAL TEMPERATURE RECORDS
The following table lists records of extreme temperature by continent and by territory (via links in the table). Some of the data are known territorial temperature extremes, but the majority are merely the highest and lowest temperatures found by research. In either case, these records will always be subject to revision.
Where possible or appropriate, data in the main tables exclude temperature readings taken in uninhabited locations, particularly those at high altitude. This is to provide information that is more representative of the climates of each territory. Where known, data from high altitudes is included as notes.
Where the precision of a temperature is known only to the nearest degree, the data is reported in these tables as such, so that a published temperature of 45°C is reported as “45°C”, not “45.0°C”,
Unfortunately there are many instances in which over-exposure of thermometers or transcription errors have resulted in incorrect data being treated as authentic. There are many examples of this, and there may be some of these in these tables, but an attempt has been made to remove the more obvious of them. Where appropriate, these are reported as notes to the tables.
Where available, the source of the data has been provided as a reference. For data servers, only the internet address of the main station page is given: researchers interested in obtaining the specific information must navigate from the given page to the place and date of interest.
Also note that dates associated with temperature records are given as accurately as possible. Dating of records may differ from the actual dates of recording due to the many different sources of information used, the time of day or night that records were reached, time zone differences and the various processes associated with reporting the data. The dates given here are those obtained from the given source.
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[edit] Notes and References
- ^ a b Fact Sheet No. 9 - Weather Extremes (2007 Edition), National Meteorological Library and Archive, Meteorological Office. Retrieved 4 March 2007.
- ^ a b Weather and Climate, Death Valley National Park, National Park Service. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
- ^ Fact Sheet No. 9 – Weather extremes, Met Office, UK. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
- ^ Meteorological Report for the Year 1918, Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Higher temperatures, specifically 58.0°C reported from al-‘Azīzīyah Libya on 13 September 1922 are unreliable. For a discussion of the issues with the al-‘Azīzīyah reading, see Change in the Weather by Philip Eden, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, pp194-196. No reliable temperature exceeding 51°C has been reported from anywhere in Africa in the last 50 years.
- ^ On the Lowest Temperatures on Earth, Monthly Weather Review, January 1958, pp6-10, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 18 March 2006.
- ^ -67.6°C was recorded at Verkhoyansk Russia on 5 February and 7 February 1892.
- ^ City sizzles as mercury rises to 47C, The Express Tribune. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
- ^ Europe: Lowest Temperature, Arizona State University - WMO. Retrieved 6 January 2008.
- ^ Valori medi e estremi della temperature, Anno 1999, Agenzia Regionale per i Rifiuti e le Acque - Osservatorio delle Acque. Retrieved 5 March 2007.
- ^ Klinck is an automatic weather station located at 72.31°N 40.48°W at an elevation of 3105m on the uninhabited Greenland ice sheet where temperatures are believed to fall below -70°C. The lowest temperature recorded at an inhabited place is -63.0°C at Snag Canada on 3 February 1947.
- ^ Datos extremos en el país y en el mundo, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
- ^ This is probably an uninhabited area. The lowest temperature recorded at an inhabited place is probably -37.0°C at Coyhaique Alto Chile on 21 June 2002.
- ^ Anales Climatológicos, Tomo II, Periodo 1933-1937, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
- ^ 49.1°C reported from Villa de María del Río Seco Argentina on 2 January 1920, and 48.9°C reported from Rivadavia Argentina on 11 December 1905 are probably unreliable.
- ^ Ranfurly pips Ophir as NZ's coldest : —25.6degC, Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ Rainfall and Temperature Extremes, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ The Antarctic Treaty, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Retrieved 3 March 2007.
- ^ Steven R. Colwell, British Antarctic Survey.
- ^ This reading is probably reliable. 17.4°C was recorded at the same place on 13 January 1991. The highest temperature recorded on the Antarctic mainland is 15.0°C at Vanda Station, Victoria Land on 5 January 1974.
